The Clinton Myth

Much ado is being made of Bill Clinton’s unscheduled tag-team appearance with Barack Obama at the White House briefing room following their private meeting. It’s clearly another mark of floundering by Obama, but that’s not the important point.

The important point is the miscalculation that is being made by Obama and the Democrats in enlisting the support of Clinton. There is an utterly false narrative about Bill Clinton which the ruling class in both parties (and both sides of the punditry) believe is universally shared by the American people. Specifically, that the passage of time and the many photo-op humanitarian roles played by Clinton since the end of his presidency have converted him into some kind of Reagan-lite—a beloved old rascal who was a political genius with a great common touch and shrewd ‘triangulation’ skills.

The only part of this narrative that is true is that there has been a passage of time since Clinton’s two terms ended. Americans know he can’t return for another term, and Americans, in their gracious, inherent habit of forgiving and moving on, prefer to think fondly of their past presidents rather than dwell on their failings. And perhaps in their weighing of the lesser of two evils, Clinton is seen as less dangerous and harmful than Obama. But that’s the end of the real narrative.

Clinton never won a majority of the votes of the American people. He won in 1992 because of one singular reason: the spite and vindictiveness of Ross Perot toward Bush 41. He won in 1996 because the RINO establishment perpetuated the ‘my turn’ style of selecting Presidential candidates, and succeeded in selecting the one candidate, Bob Dole, who could make John McCain look exciting by comparison.

Clinton disgraced the office by his adolescent horn dog behavior, was impeached for perjury, shadowed by Arkansas scandals for the entire eight years, and was never made to fully account for his political fund-raising from Chinese communists. For all the revisionist history that seeks to portray the beloved Clinton as the sage economic guru, he really did nothing but reap the peace dividend given to him by Reagan’s victory in the Cold War. The end of his two terms marked the end of the tech bubble, and the entire eight years marked the expansion of the government-engineered housing bubble that would inevitably collapse later.

Clinton was and proudly continues to be a moral scum bag, parading a false marriage in front of America and the world as he continues to chase whatever shallow women continue to think of him as a celebrity. If the revisionist history and modern Clinton narrative were true, Al Gore was running to succeed a beloved and genius-level successful President whom he had faithfully served for eight years of fortunate apprenticeship. But the truth is the cumulative effect of his immorality and practiced lying was marked by the American people in 2000, when they elected George W. Bush for the basic reason that he seemed like a more honorable and decent man.

Which brings us back to Clinton’s recent appearance with Obama, and the Pravda media’s hallelujah chorus over the great comfort this provides to the American people to the effect that now, the real pro is back in the picture to save us from Obama.

The American people aren’t buying this nonsense. The Clinton ‘aura’ is pure delusion propped up by liberal acolytes. Clinton and his wife are socialists and Alinsky-ites just as much as Obama; they just hide it better. The American people are fed up with socialism, liberalism, and intellectualism in all their forms, and they don’t care what face is put on any of it. They are engaged and awake. The lies and Pravda narratives aren’t working. They want a return to the values and principles of America as founded, and they are out of patience with both political parties for failing to grasp this.

We think a healthy chunk of the 63 new faces in Congress DO grasp this, and big change is coming, just in time.

Paul Gable

December 11, 2010